Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.

• The People
• Get funding
• Build something

Find Top Professionals For Your Campaign

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• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

City of Memory is a participatory, dynamic story map of New York City curated by the cultural heritage institution, City Lore.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports

The professional association for design

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Flux is a new political party designed to connect Australians directly to Parliament and change politics forever!

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• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

The Library of Congress announced that the legislative information website THOMAS is scheduled to stop functioning on July 5, with…

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Meet the others
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Code for America API. Tracks and motivates activity and participation across the civic technology movement.

• The Tech
• Civic data APIs

Redes de Poder en la Política y Negocios

• Watchdogging and transparency

Ranked Choice Voting Election Result Visualization

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Data visualization

A database of projects and organizations dedicated to fighting COVID-19

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Neighborhood forums

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training, and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields

Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Digital rights
• Open internet

OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We are the place where social sector professionals gain the data skills they need to succeed.

• trainings

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

• United States (federal government)

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Public Data for Public Use

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

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• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Helping communities use digital media, mapping, and open data tools for greater influence and representation in development and democracy.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Citizens’ Voice platforms is used to develop evidence on youth needs, aspirations and behaviour which is shared with media, partners and changemakers.

• youth

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

The Challenge is a three-phase, prize-based competition to find technology-based solutions that address or improve opioid abuse prevention, treatment and overdose avoidance and response.

• opioids

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Envisio helps governments achieve greater transparency & accountability by making it easy to track and report on strategic plan.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

EasyVote Solutions delivers a SaaS platform to city, county and state election offices to help manage the process of running elections.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Slido is an audience interaction tool for meetings, events and conferences. It offers interactive Q&A, live polls and insights about your audience.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Legalswipe educates users about their legal rights through a series of menus and cues.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Europe's best framework for developing and operating a business

• Graveyard
• Hubs

A report on the pathologies of commercial platforms and benefits and challenges of ethical platforms

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

LexLucid is a service that grades elements in contracts and online legal documents, such as terms of service and privacy policies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

This neighbor-helping-neighbor expert network attempts to replace the “pub conversation”

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

An online forum for community discussion

• The Tech
• Media
• Meet the others

Public Innovation

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Public sector innovation labs

The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Code to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

We want to support and strengthen the community of activists and advocacy organisations pushing for the transparency that is needed for citizens around the world to follow the money

• Watchdogging and transparency

Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

• US Election 2020

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• Civic data
• Engagement tech

With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.

• apps
• city
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

DSU is the official app of the Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Mark43 is reinventing public safety software applications from the ground up, delivering unparalleled efficiency gains to first responders.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards